From: "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@...>
Date: 2006-03-31T16:45:02+09:00
Subject: Re: win32ole in compiled ruby

>>> sender: "Alexandru E. Ungur" date: "Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 04:41:20PM +0900" <<<EOQ
> >>> sender: "matthewdmaxwell@gmail.com" date: "Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 12:38:43PM +0900" <<<EOQ
> > I am having a problem with getting the win32ole extension to work for
> > my ruby-1.8.4, which I compiled from source.  After I had compiled it I
> > found out you need to comment out the ext from ext/Setup.  I did that
> > and recompiled but using irb I still get an error
> > 
> > [root@preservedasset doc]# irb
> > irb(main):001:0> require 'win32ole'
> > LoadError: no such file to load -- win32ole
> >         from (irb):1:in `require'
> >         from (irb):1
> > irb(main):002:0>
> > 
> > Anyone know what I am doing wrong?
> Yes. You're asuming that the whole world uses Windows :) and therefore
> expect win32ole to be part of Ruby core. Thank God that's not the
> case... :)
> 
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32ole/

Mea culpa, looks like it is part of stdlib:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/

but them, why is it listed both on RAA and stdlib?
Isn't RAA listing 'extra' applications/libraries that are not part of
core+stdlib ? It also lists stdlib libraries as well?

Alex